Aeschyli Tragoediae (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics) (Ancient Greek Edition) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108016219 ISBN 13: 9781108016216

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The classical scholar and philologist Gottfried Hermann (1772-1848), professor of classics at Leipzig, was especially influential in the fields of Greek grammar and poetical metres. He was among the leading scholars who argued that an accurate knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages was crucial for understanding the intellectual life of the ancient world, and should be the chief aim of philology, the study of the development of languages. Only seven of the plays of Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy, survive in complete form, and Hermann's was the first critical edition to contain all of them. It was published in Leipzig in two volumes in 1852, four years after his death. Volume 1 contains the texts of all of Aeschylus' tragedies and of Prometheus Bound, of which the authorship is attributed to Aeschylus, and an appendix of notes.

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Book Description:

A leading classical scholar and philologist, Gottfried Hermann conducted his most important work on Greek grammar and poetry, although he also published critical editions of poems and plays. This two-volume academic study was published in Leipzig in 1852. Volume 1 contains the seven tragedies, plus Prometheus Bound, and notes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1108016219
• ISBN 13: 9781108016216
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Hermann Gottfried